Having spent the better part of a decade around the Memphis area, I concur. But deliberate antagonism of some of them is not at all a particularly good idea.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that print looks like a depiction of the incident right after Shiloh, when Nathan Bedford Forrest, better known as the "Wizard of the Saddle," found himself surrounded by Yankee soldiers. The story goes that he picked one off the ground and used him as a shield to get back to the Confederate lines.